NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully completed testing of a method for planetary defense against near-Earth objects, during which the DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid, causing the asteroid to change direction,This was the NASA Space Agency’s first attempt to move to an asteroid. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the world’s first …
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The Webb telescope has captured its first image of Neptune, in this image the rings of the planet are most clearly visible, and this image of Webb captures more than 30 years of view, as well as Webb’s Cameras reveal the ice giant in a whole new light. This new image from Webb shows a …
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A vivid image of M77’s center has been taken using visible and infrared observations by the Hubble Telescope. The red and blue stripes in this image highlight pockets of star formation along the pinwheeling arms. There are dark dust lanes around the stars in the galaxy. M77 is a spiral galaxy, it is a prime …
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The NGC 1961 galaxy, located in the constellation Camelopardalis, about 200 million light-years from Earth, is a spiral galaxy with curved arms. Taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the image shows the grand spiral arms unfolding, the bright, blue regions of bright young stars reflecting the dusty spiral arms swirling around the bright center of …
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When a star ends up in an explosion, the debris of that star spills over, making it often difficult for astronomers to determine the timeline of the star’s demise from the debris. How any star will end depends on its mass, when a star reaches a critical mass, then it draws matter from another star, …
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the region in the Magellanic Cloud where thousands of never-before-seen, young stars are present in a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus, the region once again in space-time as cosmic Tells the story of creation. The Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy is the largest and brightest …
The Webb telescope took its first direct image of an exoplanet, known as HIP 65426b, an image not only special to Webb, but also of astronomy, as Webb’s exoplanet image is a potential source for future observations, There are good signs. Webb used the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to capture HIP 65426, …
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Spherical galaxies look like diamonds in a basket that are shining because of light, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured one such galaxy about 23,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius situated at. This globular galaxy, known as Cluster NGC 6558, was captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys of the Hubble Space Telescope …
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Twinkling stars and their planets in the Universe are filled with clouds of vaporized rock, and the first glimpses of wildly different environments on one of the many varieties of these exoplanets are beginning to appear, clouds of vaporized rock on exoplanets. Some say, and now NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has just begun to …
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